Shagged Out Viroids Volume 4. Over here!!

[nickelbabe]

ooops, got a bit carried away there.....

sign in everyone!
let's hope we get some new graduates on here too!

Ha ha at the grave marker nickel, still I quite like unusual presents

Having a lie down now, didn't sleep much last night as little oats doing riverdance (on his head), had a couple of shows and bump dropped, all over night! Today I've had fairly painful BHs when walking around so hoping it will all kick off soon!

Glad your appt was good bam, always great to hear the heartbeat :)

Ha ha at the grave marker nickel, still I quite like unusual presents

Having a lie down now, didn't sleep much last night as little oats doing riverdance (on his head), had a couple of shows and bump dropped, all over night! Today I've had fairly painful BHs when walking around so hoping it will all kick off soon!

Glad your appt was good bam, always great to hear the heartbeat :)

BH proves nothing and you know that!

I did lose my mucus plug... does that prove anything?

no, that doesn't either!
the lady at the antenatal class said you can lose your mucus plug 4 weeks before you go into labour!

Had midwife this morning - we were both late, so I didn't let on that I was (she's been away, and she was being forced to be filled in with stuff upstairs, so came down at 9:15. I thought my appointment was 9:10, so I got there just after 9... It was supposed to be 8:45
anyway, everything's fine. My last blood test showed iron of 10.9 (which I don't know if that's 10.9 total, or 10.9 = 109 in the same terms as blood donation (where the minimum is 125). I just can't see it being a whole order of magnitude lower! )
Isbn is the correct way up! thank god! How much I have worried.
she also said that it's more likely to have been the bum I could feel (but I'm still convinced it was the head) at the top. Then she confirmed that she's not supposed to say what direction it is until 36 weeks. (i suppose that's becuase it can move so much) I told her I'd make her tell me anyway, so it's fine
I also weighed myself, and I am now a hefty 73kg (no wonder I feel so lumpy and uncomfortable!)(11st 7lb in real money)

(that's 5 and a half lbs since last time, 4 weeks ago.)
oh, fundal height is 34, which is a little bit bigger than before too (it was 29 at 29+2 weeks, and i'm 33+2 now, so in theory it should be 33, but it's 34. That's probably why the weight has increased more than 1lb a week)

Its not going to be 4 weeks, cos that would be a very long gestation! Hoping LO will make an appearance in the next few days - got as far as the MW coming out yesterday evening as I'd been having full on contractions every 5 mins for a few hours, but then all stopped again latent labour is soooo frustrating! MW confirmed cervix in right place (i.e. in the middle, not rammed at the back) and just starting to open. Head 3/5 engaged too. So I don't deserve a kipper thank you very much Just wish he would arrive now! Just a warning, if mw has small hands and wants to do a internal examination, run for the hills. It HURTS.

11st 7 is light by my book! (I'm 14st 11) though I suppose it depends on what you were in the first place... I've put on 1 st 7lb which I'm pretty pleased with overall. Still feel lumpy and uncomfortable though

no, obviously yours won't be 4 weeks! Mine could be, though....

exciting stages though! opening cervix, all engaged and everything!
don't forget to do your Live Birth thread.
:)

(i feel umpy and comfortable now, and I've got ages to go. Didn't think I'd be moaning about it this early, but last night I was walking round the house moaning like fuck about how uncomfortable I am, and how i can't sit in one position for more than 10 minutes without it hurting me! etc etc
and i've still got SEVEN weeks to go (NINE if the plan to be late due to shop cover is anything to go by!!)

Well I'm sat here on labour ward holding my beautiful baby boy, born at 6.30 this morning after epic non-stop 34.5 hour labour home birth went out the window as my blood pressure had gone up, though after 19 hrs with only tens an epidural seemed very appealing... Finally got it 6 hrs later

Will tell birth story later when I've slept!!

Well I'm sat here on labour ward holding my beautiful baby boy, born at 6.30 this morning after epic non-stop 34.5 hour labour home birth went out the window as my blood pressure had gone up, though after 19 hrs with only tens an epidural seemed very appealing... Finally got it 6 hrs later

Will tell birth story later when I've slept!!

yeay! Congratulations

34.5 hours????
ow ow ow ow ow ow!
I'm not surprised your blood pressure went up.
can't wait to hear your story :)

rest now, though ,rest! :)

Huge congratulations mightily! Maybe you should change your user name now to mightilyknackered![hgrin]

Hope you get a good rest now and lots of lovely cuddly time with baby.[hsmile]

Congratulations mightily . Definitely sleep as much as you can. X

It's gone dead quiet on here now.
:(

Sorry to have abandoned you Nickel! Life's a little busy at the moment, as you might imagine! Birth story over on the grad thread if you want a read, its a bit of a long one though, I'll warn you... and that's the edited version! Soon be time for you to graduate though?

How are things with you Bam?

nickel; it will go fast believe me! DD is 5 months today and I cant believe how quick it's gone.

I know it's different for everyone but I found the last few weeks of being pregnant ALOT harder than life with a newborn so just keep thinking it gets better

I'll nip over to read the birth story, then (althought you should have put it on here [tongue])

It's very weird only being 6 weeks from the end (potentially)
I'm only just getting used to being pregnant! (and there's still soooo much I haven't got the hang of yet!)

I felt the same Cowboy. My heartburn vanished and any sleep was real sleep. The weeks will fly by Nickel...very exciting!

I'm glad you popped in - I feel like I'm on my own over here!
:(

I had something really important to say yesterday, but cos there's hardly anyone here, by the time I found the thread in "thread I'm on" I couldn't remember what I wanted to say!

I want the weeks to fly by, but I don't, iyswim. I'm only just getting used to it (apart from the latest symptom of extremely sore skin around the bump! I can't possibly get any bigger than this : i don't have the skin to cope with it!)

Bloody Mothercare (against whom I am now joining the millions of MNers who say they're CRAP) - their big-bump maternirty knickers come in a 8-10 or a 12-14. You're supposed to go with the size you had before pg, but I always get 10-12 knickers! soooo annoying
so I stood in the shop yesterday for ages trying to decide which to get - if shops do knickers in single sizes, I go for a 10, so I plumped for the 8-10. I complained to the lady on the counter who basically ignored me.
So, now I'm wearing the first pair in the pack, they DO NOT FIT!
they've got a good wide gusset, which is lovely, but the back is too small, so they're riding up my cheeks (which is the most annoying triat of a pari of knickers!), and the bump is not quite right, either, so the elastic is digging in at the top, and it's too baggy at the bottom of the bump, so i feel like they're falling down around my crotch anyway.
Guarantee if I'd bought the 12-14, they would have been ginormous and uncomfortable and slipping and riding too.
How hard can it be to make a 10-12?? it's ONE GRADE! I could do that and it's 9 years since I graded a fucking pattern!

good rant! I'm agreed, mothercare is rubbish. I just bought really ugly m&s pants in a 14. Normally a 10/12.

Feel for you regarding the sore bump. Mine felt like it was going to explode at the end and went really itchy. Get lots of lotion on it.

You are always welcome to come post on just Mumming. Normally I am just trying to gain knowledge from frak and coaf

Bambam, hope you are ok?

Just waving hello from hazy sleep deprivation... actually should be sleeping now as DS is. Hopefully emerging soon from tongue-tie breastfeeding hell... just discovered the joy of nipple shields... first pain-free feed in 6 days, lovely

Go for Sainsbury's parachute knickers full briefs in a size too big Nickel, they're enormous, but comfy

Glad the feeding is getting better for you. I was lucky to not get sore. Though I wore so much lanolin that ds looked like he has lip gloss on for first two weeks

You have to love a good pair of parachute knickers. Matching slinky underwear seems a lifetime ago.

Excuse spelling. Have mole eyes at the moment.

Mightily - the reason I went for the maternity ones was because I'd got a set of the sainsbury's parachutes in a 14, and I was annoyed by how narrow the gusset is (hairs sticking out in a beautiful pant moustache )
That's my lesson learned.

I'm thinking of opening a maternity clothes shop in town, because we are inundated with pregnant women round here, and internet shopping is a hassle.
(thought about doing a "swap shop" as apart of the offer too)

I daren't come to just mumming yet - I'm only getting used to being a huge lump!

are yo ugetting it snipped, katee?

I've put an order in for the stretch mark cream from Avon (catalogue came last night), but at the moment I'm getting through the moisturiser sample sachets that have been building up over the years.